Investigative Reporting in Canada
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 6 December 2007
- ISBN 9780195423815
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 230x178x20 mm
- Weight 657 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
This book explores investigative reporting in Canada through a series of thirteen case studies.
Part I, Tracking the Truth presents eight case studies of the classis "crusading" variety, stories meant 'to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,' to use an-often-quoted phrase. This kind of investigation tries to alert the public and ultimately so outrage the collective conscience to force remedial action to right the wrong, now no longer shrouded from public view. The section opens with the investigation of missing women from the Vancouver's downtown eastside. Three environmental stories follow that challenge the widespread acceptance of environmental degradation as "normal." The last four stories in this section deal with thorny issues that expose shifts in public opinion: the federal government's ongoing efforts to control public protest; telemarketing fraud; the increasing corporate influence on the work of academics; and the bureaucratic red tap that precludes the adoption of wards of the state.
Part II Documenting the Truth demonstrates why computer assisted reporting is the latest advance in the techniques of investigative journalism. These five case studies show how spreadsheet and database programs are being used by investigative journalists to make possible stories were once impossible because of the sheer weight of the number crunching involved.
Part III Talking Journalism features interviews with four prominent journalists: Cecil Rosner, David McKie, Elaine Dewar, and Juliane Sher.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART ONE: Tracking the Truth: The Literature of Exposure
The Case of the Disappearing Women (Vancouver Sun, 2001)
Reinventing our Wheels (Ottawa Citizen/Vancouver Sun, 2001)
Death Wish: Humans and the Planet (Globe and Mail, 2001)
Asbestos, Again (Toronto Star, 2003)
Criminalizing Dissent (Ottawa Citizen and Southam News, 2001)
Dialling for Dollars (Toronto Star, 2002)
Tarnishing the Ivory Tower (Globe and Mail, 2001)
Blind Faith (Hamilton Spectator, 2005)
PART TWO: Documenting the Truth: Computer Assisted Reporting
Nowhere to Go (Toronto Star, 2001)
Nobody's Children (Toronto Star, 2001)
Recipe for disaster (Hamilton Spectator, 2001)
Drive Clean: Smokescreen (Hamilton Spectator, 2004)
Singled Out: Racial Profiling (Toronto Star, 2002)
PART THREE: Talking Investigative Journalism
Conversations with Canadian journalists
Conclusions
APPENDICES
REFERENCES
INDEX
